US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Systems and methods to control vehicle operation upon user arrival" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,676, issued on July 21.

"Systems and methods to control vehicle operation upon user arrival" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.) and Derek Bier (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a sensor unit and a processor is disclosed. The sensor unit may be configured to detect a presence of a user in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to determine a user presence in proximity to the vehicle based on inputs obtained from the sensor unit, and obtain a user preference associated with a preferred vehicle activation mode, from a plurality of vehicle activation modes, responsive to det...